: : Mango Tree : :
Ok, I’m back up and with some pictures too! Sorry for the long wait all. It’s like my PC has decided to declare it’s retirement.
I went to Mango Tree about a month with colleagues for a farewell dinner for 2 of our workmates. It was a great night : great company and wonderful dishes galore. Here’s what we ate at RM32 @ USD8.42 a head.
The table setting was like so. The cutleries all had rounded handles instead of squared ones. My Sina’ (mother in Kelabit language) mentioned that this is the tradition of the Thai people to use these type of cutleries.
As part of our starter, we had 3 cold dishes.
Som Tum : A lovely raw papaya salad with lime juice squeezed all over it. It came served with some raw long beans.
Yum Wun Sen : Glass noodles with some chicken and prawn. Served with a bit of cut chillies and the required lime juice to give us a “bit of excitement”.
Tord Mun Pla : the last of the cold dishes combination. It’s deep fried fish cakes that was truly delicious. The sauce was delicately spiced with some chillie sauce, peanuts and some raw mango(?).
Talay Phad Med Mamuang : Stir Fried Chicken with capsicum and mushroom. Yumm… it looks like a Chinese style cooking but the taste was different. I can’t quite tell what’s the difference but take my word for it, it’s different.
Tom Yum Goong : Now what is a Thai meal without some Tom Yum Goong? Spicy soup with herbs and seafood. It was delicately flavoured and yet spicy as well as slightly sourish.
Choo Chee Pla : Deep fried fish with butter sauce and spices. I have the breakdown of the menu but unfortunately it’s not with me right now as I update this page. Sorry. This was a fish dish and tasted really good.
Gaeng Kiew Wan Gai : One of my favourite. Green curry with chicken and eggplant. It was thick with coconut milk but truely, wickedly, sinfully nice. My cholesterol levels definitely went up that day.
Phad Phak Ruamitr : Stir fry mixed vegetables. Again, this dish didn’t taste like Chinese Cooking but Thai Cooking. Something about that taste that I could never quite place.
Kow Phad Gai : This is the final dish – fried rice with chicken. At least, I think it was chicken. Like I said earlier, I don’t have my menu list so trying to guess what all these items were.
So, looks good no? The Mango Tree restaurant is located along Crookshank Road, behind the Civic Center and nearby the General Hospital’s Nurses Quarters. So yeah, I had a great time. Been back there 3 times already. 🙂
Hi Wena,
Ahh….I love Thai food, especially green curry! This one looks so good too! For all of the food you ate, it was quite inexpensive wasn’t it?
Hi Wena,
Ahh….I love Thai food, especially green curry! This one looks so good too! For all of the food you ate, it was quite inexpensive wasn’t it?
Ah~ Mango Tree… Finally I see a review on it. Good review Wena. 🙂 It will be my must try list the next time I go home.
Hi Wena, glad to hear you have no more PC troubles. The food looks great! Ah, I so miss good Thai food.
ahh i love thai food too… esp. tom yam. yesterday just had tom yam mee seafood soup for lunch.
all the food here look so good and i’m sure taste as lovely. however RM32 a head does sound expensive to me. how come it charges by per head? it’s not buffet right? shouldn’t it be charge by the no. and type of dishes order? perhaps, yes, and RM32 is the amount you get divisible by 3 from the total amount?
apart from tom yam, another must have thai food, to me is otak-otak! i love thai’s otak-otak.
Aww.. the environment of mangotree is nice.. I like it.. and the service is good… but the food is not as good as i expected.. maybe oredered the wrong food? LOL anyway.. like the place.. may visit again.. hoping to taste the nicer food?